This summer tragically marked the end of NASA's space shuttle program, but fear not future and prospective space explorers!
The American Museum of Natural History announced they will host Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration. The exhibition explains to estranged space travel fans what the future of space travel is and what it may very well become.
The exhibition features a recreation of a lunar habitat, complete with a model of a space elevator rising up from the surface of the moon, and one of the world’s largest holograms, “depicting 1,000 exoplanets, and engaging, immersive simulations.”
Missions discussed at the exhibition were once only in the realm of science fiction novels and fantasy, but now, leading scientific experts, astrophysicists, and scientists discuss mining for rare gases on the moon, landing on or deflecting an asteroid, and colonizing and visiting the moon and Mars.
Marking the 50th anniversary of human space travel, Beyond Planet Earth opens with a retrospective look at some of NASA’s most influential space missions complete with actual replicas from the missions and spaceships themselves.
Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration opens November 19 and will be on display through August 2012.
For more information, visit the American Museum of Natural History.
American Museum of Natural History: W. 81st St., bet. Central Park West & Columbus Ave.
